Planning Research Matters
Our hub showcases research undertaken at RTPI-accredited planning schools.
This June 2026 edition presents research on digital data and tools and how they can be used effectively in planning practice.
This February 2026 edition explores the impact of marine spatial planning.
This research explores the impact of planning in rural places.
This research explores how good spatial planning can deliver better health and wellbeing outcomes for people.
This June 2025 edition of Planning Research Matters brings together research on biodiversity and how it is being delivered.
This edition of Planning Research Matters brings together research on housing and how it is being delivered.
Topics include digital planning skills and digital toolkits for placemaking.
Topics include Brexit, EU directives, stakeholder evaluation, local planning authorities, brownfield.
Topics include Covid 19, social infrastructure, and counter-terrorism.
Topics included connections between designs and users, and the legacies of mega-events.
Topics include environmental planning for major events, metal recovery from mines and green infrastructure.
Topics include political economy of land value capture policy in England, and city centre resilience and planning.
Topics featured include the redevelopment of contaminated sites, and health research into planning practice.
A range of projects including research on Development Consent Orders, through to renewable energy.
Topics including how to engage children in plan making, and research into the use and importance of cemeteries within place-making.
Topics focused on research into climate action.
